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    I thought that McCain looked a bit tweaked out to be honest. As if he had an unusual and bristling energy running through him that belied his regular level of attentiveness and concentration. The airforce still regularly and legally give their pilots 'go pills', similar to ritalin - dextroamphetamine and amphetamine sulphate, a long way from meth, but with similar effects - intense focus and energy to the detriment of more subtle social interaction. Sure you feel invincible, but actually come off as too talkative and inward looking, as if your inner dialog has herniated into the world and your usual editing and filtering judgments had taken some time off.
    Although I'd be a long way from suggesting that McCain was under the influence of anything like that, his overly stilted 'performance' last night was evidently taking a huge toll of his concentration to just deliver the points that he'd rehersed, and there was little room left for unscripted sociability, which would include interacting directly with Barack - he was on all cylinders as it was - the mission: to deliver the agreed-upon performance of responses completely, correctly, and in detail, and return to base. In doing so he sacrified those subtle nuances of unscripted, natural human behavior that convey emotions such as compassion and even humor - vital signs that the speaker understands more, or has to capacity to deal with - more complex and difficult topics than those at hand, that the speaker has the ability and capacity not to be confused by thinking and talking about such things. John McCain was redlining it last night, through gritted teeth his went through his list of talking points by rote, whilst his opponent seemed to breeze through his responses, seemed to be thinking AND talking, creative and intellectual, focussed yet relaxed, and it's these qualities that people are responding to, and why it is he who can rightly claim the victory.

    And this I deduced entirely from watching the debate with the sound muted, whilst reading bed-time stories to my kid.

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